"tentation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica",
          "text": "Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.",
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        "A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments."
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